Wednesday, August 26, 2009

film stillthe lady who carried her house on her back 1min 40 second looped film...its so fabulous to think about the fact that even though I have never been to Halifax in Yorkshire... my little film the lady who carried her house on her backhas ! The temporary art space show finishs up this weekend ,and my film can take a rest from looping endlessely around and around and around (till its next adventure)I am at the moment trying to learn how to stream it on to my blog....then you can all see it.

Monday, August 24, 2009

alwaysdrawing that was in the syntheastwood show homemadeink and acrylic on found envelopeme this morning on a love cyclethe ring, the ring,THE RINGthe once beloved rose jugthe light encircled cottage that we discovered this morning ...OMG ! .....it arrived, the ring(s), just when I returned from a glorious cycle which had led us down a path we had never gone down.....and there at the end was the sweetest old cottage , with large flagstones in front on the ground ,the sun encircling it and yet..........the life all gone.It must have lain asleep for nearly 100 years,inside was the frail remains of a rose decorated jug.Swallows are EVERYWHERE as we speak, they followed us swooping around as we cycled, creating big loops of magic.Victoria Elisabeth, the maker of said unicorn rings enclosed two little random fortunes she had made for me aswell ! ....(thanks victoria x)Pick a day this week to be a day for mistakes,and gohave fun.

Sit outside and watch the stars:they're just waitingto be wished on.Take a look at her etsy shop,just click on this post title.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

.......oh you know , ho hum, summers drawing to a close ,life seems between two worlds at the moment , one still here and the next ,not yet started.It feels precious , a week left until an inforced school regime makes one less "free", but still and all the light is so magical ,look at it outlining the clouds.....just this very moment.I am looking forward to giving my studio one almighty sort out and make some space in it for serious drawing activity.I cant BELIEVE that I painted over this image (a self portrait).Retrieving\resurecting it feels like my starting point into some new work , when I am able.(Lucky that I had photographed it.)I remember a painting tutor saying not to be afraid of loosing images, that sometimes you have to loose them to find the work again.I am SO excited about getting my unicorn rings. One is for a friend (shush....she doesnt know about it)......unicorns , hmmmmmmm dont cha just love "em !The sea potatoes are from da hols, I always feel they are the sign.....it is very hard to find them whole ,as they are so delicate and when I do , well , it feels very lucky .This time a friend and my eldest daughter gave me ones they'd found and I felt like the cat that got the cream .Oh , the lemon squeezer ....well there is this super cool site click on the above post title unicorn rings etc....to get to wintersmoon.I imagine it is from the 1970;s ,I adore the drawing on it , talk about arbritary.Yeah....trees, swirly horses,um...man on horse,hare,quail,fox,flowers..........I LIKE.I hope that all my millions of readers (well ,maybe my few lovelies)........ enjoy good luck with all your late summer\early autumn doings....me well I'll be fine.............just as soon as the lemon squeezer and the unicorn ring arrive.

princess in the nativity set at the graveyard of an industrial school Letterfrack .Connemaramagic flowers on Renvyle beachspoons from avoca (um , chi chi shop a bit expensive ) peter doig man floating on the sea for hours and hours and...:( coming home ....just got back yesterday from the family holidays.At this stage it seems like an essential pilgrimage to the same spot in connemara....oh how we were tested in our love for her this year ! ......I thank god for the days that I could feel free ,swim in the sea and for the rest of the damp and very windy days , I am thankful that our camp didn't blow away and that we are all still friends .Highlights were seeing a man diligently elegant, paddling his surf board for hours and hours straight out of a Peter Doig painting, ....the opalescent oval stones on the beach, three beaches from us, hearing the sea as we slept in the tent awning, and talking with old friends.Now we are home and it all seems different again.....something new is about to begin......... ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

so glad to be in this show, its an artist run project in a listed 18th century building.The group have been awarded the space (which was originally built as a cloth hall...where hand loomed cloths were sold to the market) for just six months and have hosted many fine shows in it. I am pleased to be included in their final one.Click on the title salon show to get to their space.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

I am going off tommorow on the annual pilgrimage (family holiday) to connemara,Its been raining incessentantly for a week, but....its okay (assumes shaky voice)"its more than that".....we have lovely once a year friends ,the sea , the amazing light, beachcombing, reading, sleeping,dreaming....but no blog :( ...I will be back !

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I am an artist living and working in the West of Ireland.
I make drawings,artists books,short films and beloved objects.You can see examples on my flickr page and here too.
I also have a stall at the Saturday Galway Market (from mid march through till the last saturday before christmas) where I sell my handmade artists books, clothes that I have re-made,hats that I make in a old fashioned style.... vintage clothes and beloved objects.
My blog is a space for my work in progress,my inspirations,all that surrounds, feeds and IS my work.
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